Future According to Sci-Fi Films
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13 Jul 2011There’s not much point to this large timeline of science fiction movies and shows, but it’s pretty damn entertaining, nonetheless – particularly the plot summaries.
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2 Responses to Future According to Sci-Fi Films
Neal Hanson
July 14th, 2011 at 18:02
Sorry but there is a mistake! The Matrix movies aren’t set in 2199 (as Morpheus states in the Matrix), because Neo was the sixth iteration of “The One” (as the Architect says in The Matrix Reloaded). So if we assume each iteration is 100 years, then that would set the date to 2699+
Jessica
July 20th, 2011 at 15:38
@ Neal…. You are takin this WAY too literally, and only showing what kind of life you DON’T have…